Tuesday, March 27, 2007

it has been a while since i last blogged. i am getting really lazy! blogging is really sooo time consuming too - and i still have so much to update. it has suddenly dawned upon me that i will only be in vancouver for less than 1 month:( sigh. time is passing waaaaaaaayyy too fast!

anw here's a brief update on what i have been doing - will let the pictures do most of the talking;)

::chinatown with mijin-na::
went to chinatown with mijin-na coz she hasnt been there - even though she has been in vancouver for 5+ months already!! too bad it was raining quite heavily so we couldn't cover a lot of ground. but at least we lunched on some nice chinese food:) i had yummy crispy sangmin with minced beef and mixed vegetable! the portion was huge though - such that i could have it for 2 meals! glad mijin-na enjoyed the food too! and she has made me sooo addicted to pineapple buns now:/ despite the depressing rain, we had fun walking around and exploring parts of chinatown which i have never ventured to:)


::cinnamon rolls indulgence and chocolate party::
after biblestudy on last last last friday, mijin-na and i satisfied our sudden cravings for cinnamon rolls! haha. we heard so much about the famous cinnamon rolls at grounds for coffee so we decided to try them for ourselves! the cinnamon roll with icing was sinfully delicious - i really love it:) the ambience at the cafe was great too! mijin-na and i really share a deep deep love for pastries and food in general:) haha.

after that, we both made our way to sarah's place at st andrews for the ivcf girls' hangout night/chocolate party! we (under the supervision of our chief baker larissa) baked brownies with condensedmilk+crushedcoconut topping (excellent combination!!) - following a martha stewart's recipe! larissa seems to have magic fingers whenever it comes to cooking/baking - the texture and taste of the brownies were just perfect. to top it off, we savoured the brownies while watching the movie - chocolat! i really enjoyed the movie and the girl-ish fellowship:)

::dinner with bora-ya at my place::
on one of the thursdays, bora came over to my place for dinner:)

i cooked blackpepper chicken and anchovies-spinach soup:)

much thanks to bora who brought me my favourite green tea gelato icecream:) i never knew gelato came in icecream sticks too! it was very good:) really enjoyed catching up with bora - whom i havent met up since i came back from my east coast trip!

::primataste with the girls & stayover at bora's::
last saturday, karen and i brought julia, bora-ya, mijin-na and anna-ya to primataste to try singaporean food! apart from bora, it was their first time trying our local food. we shared 4 roti pratas (which was horrendously expensive - cad$4 for just 2 slices of prata! madness. but it was comforting that at least they tasted good;) - and i had soyasauce roast chicken rice, which i really enjoyed!! i think it is even comparable to that of weenamkee back home?:) yummy! as usual - it was a night of good food and company:) since we were already in downtown, we couldnt resist going shopping after dinner - and karen came back very satisfied;) heh.

after that, i went over to bora's place for a stayover! not surprisingly, i got hungry in the middle of the night (bah!!) and i made redbeansoup for our supper:) anna came by to join us too - coz she wanted to share with us her experience in preparing for her mission trip to africa! God really works in mysterious ways - and i am very encouraged by how He always provides for us in ways that is best for us (and of which we will only realize on hindsight) :) anw im glad that they enjoyed the redbeansoup - we had a great time chatting till the wee hours in the morning! much much thanks to bora who awoke early (even though we all slept so late) just to cook for me some traditional korean food - myo-hong-ngiap-zhu, which literally means seaweed-mussel porridge! mashita!! it was delicious;) we did qt together before i had to rush to church - but was still 10mins late:(


ok will update more later!!